Dutch prostitutes aim to score same retirement tax benefits as soccer players

According to numerous reports, Dutch prostitutes are hoping to score the same retirement tax benefits that soccer players receive because the "hard physical work" they do is similar to what happens on the pitch.

Freya, a company with the goal of running a number of brothels in the Dutch city of Utrecht, is heading the retirement benefits campaign. Prostitution has been legal and regulated in the Netherlands since 2000 and workers qualify for unemployment benefits and a state pension.

Freya’s lawyer, Wil Post, told a Dutch newspaper: "Footballers and prostitutes both do a difficult physical job that they cannot do their whole life. Therefore, they would like to be able to save as much as they can."

Post is asking that Freya's employees be allowed to deposit up to $7,000 a month into a tax-free pension account, the same right that is currently afforded to footballers.

"Men prefer young women: there always comes an age when prostitutes no longer get any work," Post said. “It can take a prostitute more than 10 years to stop working because she's trapped as she can't save money."

Dutch authorities have yet to comment on the request.

[NBC News]